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A project which creates relationships: between artists, disciplines, to commission new work for publication, exhibition and staging.Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:51:19 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=abcAssociate Studio Programme 4 : Elephant & Castle 2017http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/2145
http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/2145#commentsMon, 20 Mar 2017 17:19:39 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=2145The second Associate Studio to be developed out of the collaborative project between Double agents and Acme Studios opened in the Highline Building in Elephant & Castle in October 2015 and is now inviting applications for the next round; October 2017-2019. Like the first Studio in Stockwell, established in 2013, the studio operates as a ‘transitional’ space for recent graduates from the BA Fine Art course at Central Saint Martins. Again like the Stockwell Studio it’s housed in a new UAL Hall of Residence.

This second Studio follows the same model as the first and offers space for twelve graduates from BA Fine Art at CSM, and brings the total number of Associate places offered to twenty. It provides a very affordable route into a professional studio space in a mutually supportive environment and is underpinned by a programme of collective dialogue and mentoring involving professional artists, writers, curators proposed by the Associates themselves.

The programme provides:
• Studio space in a new-build ground floor open-plan site totalling approx. 223 sq.m/2,400 sq.ft for twelve graduates from BA Fine Art at CSM.
• Purpose designed studio space located within a UAL Hall of Residence built to a high specification benefiting from natural light, three meter high ceilings, lighting, power, heating, internet access, shared wash-up and WC facilities and 24-hour access.
• Tenancy with Acme Studios for two years, at a rate of £6 per sq.ft (50% standard rental) – we are planning for an average weekly rent for each artist of approximately £25 per week.
• A programme of studio visits by artists, curators and writers.
• Registration, for the selected twelve graduates, with Acme from start of occupancy – in preparation for the possibility of a future studio tenancy after the completion of the programme.
• Inclusion, for all applicants, on the Associate Studio Programme waiting list, used to fill any places that become free during the two-year period.
The Associate Studio Programme is open to applications from CSM BA Fine Art students graduating in 2016 and 2017.

There will be a Presentation and Q&A session, with Graham Ellard on Wednesday 10 May, 1pm E003, at Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, Kings Cross.

2016 Graduates from BA Fine Art at CSM are invited to this meeting. To ensure access to the building for that meeting they must RSVP by 5pm Tuesday 2 May to the email address: artstudent@csm.arts.ac.uk, with the subject line – CSM ASP 2007 Briefing Meeting.

An Application Form and Further Information can be downloaded from the links at the bottom of this page.

The deadline for applications is 10am Monday 12 June. Please read the Further Information carefully for all eligibility criteria and application requirements.

The 2017 programme runs from 1 October 2017 until September 30 2019.

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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/2032#commentsFri, 17 Feb 2017 11:54:16 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=2032In February 2017 artist Hannah Lees was invited to visit the Highline Studios. Hannah showed us her work using her website, starting in reverse chronological order, giving brief, sometimes playful but informed explanations about her works. Notable was her use of organic matter such as natural dyes on fabric, collected materials from beach combing set into plaster tablets, saved olive stones cast into gold and painted murals on gallery walls in discarded wine “lees”. Her works appearing primitive, metaphorical and poetic, we discussed the use in titling and how that can open up a work by presenting multiple meanings for the viewer. After Hannah’s lively presentation and subsequent discussion, we moved on to view work in progress from three of the Associate artists: Daniel Kan, Helena De Pulford and Abbi Jones.Abbi Jones
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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/2135#commentsThu, 10 Nov 2016 11:00:54 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=2135Hannah Perry visited the Highline studios in December. Hannah started the visit by showing work from two recent shows, including her latest film and a performance, exhibited in Berlin. Hannah’s presentation illuminated the material processes and ideas behind her work. She discussed how her screen prints develop from her films; the transition between analogue and digital film editing, as well as practical considerations when planning work for larger shows.
The discussion then developed around themes in Hannah’s work that resonated with the groups own practices and research. The conversation covered a range of topics, including the use of mirroring, hypnosis, and sound in Hannah’s work; psychological states and hysteria; diaristic forms; intimacy, solidarity, and friendship.Helena de Pulford
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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1850#commentsThu, 13 Oct 2016 11:45:25 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=1850In June a panel including Alex Schady and Anne Eggebert from Central Saint Martins and Lottie Leedham from Acme Studios, met to select the group of 2015 and 2016 graduates to form the 2016 programme and take their place in the shared studio at the Glassyard Building until October 2018.

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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/2053#commentsWed, 27 Jul 2016 11:00:27 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=2053In July Katrina Palmer visited the Highline Studio. Her show at Void in Derry had just opened and she talked about the process by which that work had been developed. In particular ‘Now Landscape’ a new work produced specifically for Void. Inspired by Ash, the gravedigger character from her 2015 Artangel commission ‘End Matter’ it considers, through the thoughts of the gravedigger, the present day as the stone of the future and as a material full of artificial and highly processed substances. This interwoven relationship between one work and another was a theme discussed in general, along with the specifics of the work itself. The discussion moved through ideas related to archeology and the fluid status of the material found – as evidence of something past, onto which we project meaning from the present – to consider the work of Associates Abbi Jones, and Daniel Kan.
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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1973#commentsWed, 11 May 2016 16:09:51 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=1973In May Anna Barham visited the Highline studios. Anna began by showing a number of works each involved in the complications, vagaries and slippages of language manifest through the technologies of speech recognition – the translation of spoken words into text. Taking the form of video works and live readings/performances the processing and re-processing of one ‘medium’ to another creates elaborate mergings of units of sound and language – “insight is quick” / “inside the squid”. The use of text as a subject, form and media led into the discussion of the work of Associates, in particular Anna Pickles Harvey and Abbi Jones.
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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1812#commentsFri, 06 May 2016 09:44:20 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=1812In 2013, out of their collaborative project Double agents and Acme Studios, created a ‘transitional’ studio space for recent graduates in the UAL Hall of Residence; the Glassyard Building, in Stockwell, south west London.

The first group of eight CSM BA Fine Art graduates will be moving out in October 2016 and applications are now being invited from 2015 and 2016 graduates for the next programme, from October 2016-18.

The CSM Associate Studio Programme provides a supportive environment without simply extending the ‘comfort zone’ of the college experience. The emphasis is on the creation of a mixed but cooperative community of emerging artists, who, at the point of joining the scheme, have already made a commitment to continuing a professional practice. On this basis the scheme provides a very affordable route into a professional studio space in a mutually supportive environment and underpinned by a programme of collective dialogue and mentoring involving professional artists and academics.

The programme offers a space in a new-build, accessible, secure and self-contained ground floor shared open-plan space of around 1,300 sq.ft for a group of eight graduates from BA Fine Art at CSM. This space is located within a larger studio development occupied by 30 Acme professional artists and is built to a high specification; with natural light, three meter high ceilings, lighting, power, heating, internet access, shared wash-up and WC facilities and 24-hour access. Tenancy with Acme Studios is for two years, at half the standard rate – an average weekly rent for each artist of approximately £22 per week. The programme includes a programme of studio visits by artists, curators and writers.

The programme is now open to applications from current Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art students graduating this year, and those that graduated in 2015.

Application deadline 10am Monday 13 June.

There will be a Q&A session with Graham Ellard for those interested in applying on Tuesday 10 May, 12-2pm, at Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, Kings Cross. 2015 graduates who would like to attend must rsvp by Monday 9 May to artstudent@csm.arts.ac.uk, with the subject line – CSM Associate Studio Programme 2016.

The 2016 programme runs from 1 October 2016 until September 30 2018.

THE 2016 ROUND IS NOW CLOSED TO APPLICATIONS. APPLICATIONS FOR THE NEXT ROUND, AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE STUDIO, WILL BE INVITED IN SPRING 2017.

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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1959#commentsFri, 01 Apr 2016 15:43:43 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=1959In April Eddie Peake made a studio visit to the Highline Building studios. He began the evening by explaining that he didn’t want the session to replicate a typical art school crit. and instead to approach it as something more open, as a conversation rather than a review. He showed videos and images from very early work when he graduated himself, along with images of his White Cube show, the Barbican show and his most recent performance at East Side Projects in Birmingham. He spoke about his feelings post-college and his keenness to exhibit in any space, anywhere, anytime, to anyone; and the importance of making first – importantly, of discovering ‘the idea’ through a process of making rather than a more formulaic (and simplistic) ‘thinking of an idea and then making it’. The discussion was thorough, generous and inclusive, before moving on to look at some of the Associates work; Charles Verni, Oliver Coltman and Adeeb Ashfaq.Oliver Coltman
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http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1946#commentsTue, 01 Mar 2016 15:04:21 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=1946Yuri Pattison made the first studio visit to the new studio at the Highline Building in Elephant and Castle. Yuri began by showing images of some recent works and discussing their evolution. The notion of an on-going and contingent, rather than final, finished and definitive material outcome was explored in some detail. Digital technologies offer considerable scoop for revision, re-editing and re-purposing; what might be thought of a process of continuous deferral (of the “final version v09″ file name type) can be seen as much as a virtue as it can a problem. The fluidity of the work continued as theme running into the discussion of work by some of the Associates.
]]>http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1946/feed0Associate Studio Programme 1 : Morgan Quaintancehttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1717
http://www.doubleagents.org.uk/archives/1717#commentsSun, 25 Oct 2015 23:00:25 +0000grahamellardhttp://www.doubleagents.org.uk/?p=1717In October Morgan Quaintance visited the Associate Studio Program. Morgan gave an in depth introduction to his practice as both a writer, broadcaster, musician and curator and an insight into the thought process behind his upcoming exhibition at Cubitt Gallery, ‘Smile Orange’. The discussion began with a focus on some practical considerations of working as an artist, and how to develop and curate projects collectively. The associates had prepared a staged presentation of works as a context to further the conversation. The discussion considered the importance of websites and portfolios for certain kinds of art making, and the ends of exhibiting work. Morgan talked about what interests him when he meets artists, and the business aspects of his role as a curator working on the artists behalf. The associates spoke about their aims in further exhibitions together and the possibility of showing work at the studio. Morgan suggested some approaches to using the space and modes of presentation. The specificity of its location was talked about, and the potentials of the studio as a place for promoting work, i.e. the potential of using it as a project space. Finally, Morgan discussed some of his recent interests in his research and writing. The conversation then moved to topics as diverse as telepathy, monoculture and multiculturalism.
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